Union undergarment.



PATENTED JULY 24, 1906.

E. NI'IEDBRAUBR. UNION UNDBRGARMENT. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 5, 1905.

Witnesses:

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 24, 1906.

Application filed June 5,1905. erial No. 263.697.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, EDWARD NIEDERAUER, a citizen of the United States, residing in Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio, (whose postofiice address is Hamilton, Ohio,) have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Union Undergarments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention, pertaining to improvements in union undergarments, will be readily understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which-- Figure l is a rear view of a garment exemplifying my invention Fig. 2, a front view of the same; Fig. 3, a view similar to Fig. 2, but illustrating a modification; Fig. 4, a rear view of the main portion of the unfinished garment, which I will herein term the maingarmentg Fig. 5, a plan of the outer flappiece, and Fig. 6 a plan illustrating the manner of cutting the flap-pieces from the goods.

Attention is called to my Patent No.- 700,801, granted May 2-7, 1902, and particularly to the construction of the rear placket therein, whereby a highly satisfactory degree of overlapping, fullness, and elasticity was secured. in that construction the rearplacket flaps were fla pieces attached to the main garment and aving no other ofiice than to furnish overlapping flaps for the rear placket and secure especial fullness at the seat. In the undergarment of that patent full-length legs were provided, and the main garment, quite independent of the rear flapieces, furnished the complete legs and the iront placket. In thus considering my earlier atent I am referring only to the portion be ow the waist.

My present invention improves the garment whether with long or with short legs. I

secure all of the peculiar merits of the rear placket of my earlier patent,-but in addition cause the rear-placket pieces to join the main garment in forming the legs and also to themselves form the front placket, which front placket as thus formed may terminate at a ,oint below the waist, or, if desired, it may 10in a breastplacket extended down to it, so as to form a complete placket extending continuously from the neck-front down and under the crotch and up the back to the waist, all the lower portionsof this placket forming perfect overlaps and the construction being such as to secure a highly-satisfactory degree of economy in material and in seaming.

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My improved union garment is made by first forming an incomplete main portion, which I will term the main garment, and then adding to it two flap-pieces, which complete tinuous lower placket front and rear.

In the drawings, 1 indicates that incomplete main portion which I will term the main garment, this main garment being either knit or seamed or otherwise formed to she e as desired and its upper orbreast and neo portion having any usual or desired character; 2, the legs of the main garment, which are shown of knee length, the form'being such as to give to the outside lines of the legs that liberal flare so much desired in garments of this class; 3, an opening formed in the rear of the main garment and extending from. about the waist-line to the base of the legs; a, the side edges of this opening, their erably being characterized by strong inward convexities, in which .60 the main garment and form the conrespect the present construction is much similar to the garment set forth in my earlier 6, an opxening in the front of the main garment, t e same extending from the base of the legs u to a point some distance below the waistine in front; 7, the side edges of this front opening, the lines thereof .being preferably concave, and 8 the apex of this opening, where the side edges meet. It is to be observed that this main garment has its legs incomplete and that the tops of the front and rear openings'are both far above the ultimate crotch of the garment, so that the garment is thus far incomplete not only as to the legs, but as to the front and rear.

l oceeding with the drawings, 9" indicates an outer flap-piece; 10, its seaming edge in theform, preferably, of a reverse curve with its upper portion convex, this edge to he seemed to the left-hand edge 4 of the main garment; 11, the to edge of this outer flappiece, the same to e seamed to the upper edge 5 of the rear opening of the main garment; 11, an u ward cut in this outer flappiece near the e ge opposite the edge 10, this cut extending from the base of the fiappiece upward to the height of the intended crotch o the garment, the line of this out being a curve presenting its convexity toward the edge 10, a somewhat narrow tongue being thus left upon the edge of the. wee opposite the edge 10; 12, the concave e go of this flappiece resulting from the cut 11, this edge 12 top edge of this rear opening;

to be seamed to the edge 7 of the left-hand leg of the main garment from thebase of the leg up to the extremity of the cut 1 1 13, the,

tongue before referred to as resulting from the cut 11' 14, the inner convex edge of this tongue, lthisedge to be seamed to .the upper portion of the edge 7 of the left-hand leg of the main garment, that edge 7 thus having flap material seamed to it throu hout its length, the concave edge 12 of the ap-piece extending part way up the edge 7, While the convex edge of the tongue extends the bal ance of the way up the seam 7-to the apex 8;

15, the bending-point of the tongue 13 where the crotch: and then 'forwardand then-up to- -the a ex '8 inthe'front of the main arment; 18, tlge rear seam at the juncture-o edge 10 of the outer'fiap-piece with the left edge 4-of the main garment; 19, the seam at the junc- =ture of the top edge 11 of the outer flap-piece with the top edge 5 of the rear opening in the main garment; 20, the seam at the juncture of edges 12 and 14 of the outer flap-piece with the left ed e 7 of the main garment; 21, a

tacking of t epoint of the tongue at the apex 8 of the main garment, this tacking extending down, say, two inches *from the apex on the right leg bfthe'main garment; 22, a simi- 'lar ta'cldng of thepoint of 'thetongue-to the .l'eft leg of themain garment, thefree edge of the placket as thus formed "derlying the first fla piece,

the tongue thus terminating at a point somewhat below'the' apex of the front opening of the main garment; 23, the outer rear flap of by the seaming to place of'flap-piece' 9; 24,:theouter front flap of the placket asithus formed by the seaming to place of'flap-piece 9, this combined front and rear outer flap being continuous under the crotch, the free edge of the flap-piece extendin from the level ofseam '19. at the rear to the ase of tBICkIIIg 21 at the front; 25., a second flap-piece in all respects similar to the flap piece 9, exce t that it is right instead of left, this second -a piece being similarly seamed to place in t e main garment, but with reference to the right leg instead of the left one, this second'fia -piece, however, unand thereby eonstituting the inner ap'-' iece of the-placket;

. 26, the inner rear flap o thezplacket as thus underlying'fthe outer rearflap-piece 23, and 27 the inner front fla thus underlying the outer front flap 24. t is thus seen that the seaming into lace of the 'two 'flap-pieces completes the egs and furmshes very liberal flaps for a placket extending downward at the rear and 1 under the crotch and up the "front.

The placket is of such character that seeps? it is thoroughly reliable at all of its portions, the construction being such that ample full ness is provided, together with a highly-desirable flare for the legs, and, as will be later explained, this is done practically without Waste of material in formin the flap-piece.

As thus far described and as shown in Fig.

2 the front placket extends down only from a point some distance below the Waist, both edges of the points of ithe'tongue being tacked to the front opening of the main-garment. Such construction is consistent witha garment-having either nobreast-opehingoihay ing a.comparativelyshortbreastlaclmt, as at 2,8 in Fig. 2; but, ifdesired, t ebreastplacket 28 mayextend down to the apex of the front ,openin in the main garment, the

inner flap of this" ong'placket having its-base joined to the upper extremity'of the inner tongue, while the outer flap of this long front placket may be seamed to theputer tongue, all as illustrated in Fig. 3, under whicheonditions there is formed a continuous placket extening from the neck down to and under the crotch and up the-rearto near the waist line.

By a=peculiar manner of cutting thGfififP pieces to be inserted in the main garment-it can be done practically without waste, not, however, in the production of a single garment, but as a manufacturing operation where garments are to be made-in lots. This matter is illustrated in- Fig. 6. Two layers of the fabric are taken and out through, as indicated in Fig.6. The piece 9 at the right forms the'flap-piecefor-the left leg of the garment, being the pieceillustrateddn Fig.5;

but the piece at theleft in Fig. 6 isnot the flap-piece for the other leg'of this garment, being, as will be observed, a duplicate of the piece at the right. In other, words the piece at the left is for the left leg of another-germent; but the underlying pieceof fabric-preduces also two of the pieces, and a-givente iece, inconnection-with its underlying fe ow piece, forms a right and left pair. I @ne cutting of the double thickness therefore produces two-p irs of rights andlefts. If-it should happen t at the fabric is preciselyrthe same on both faces, then, of course, acutting such as is'illustrated in Fig. 6 couldpreduee a right and left part from a single thickness of fabric.

Explanation has been given of the method of cutting the flap-pieces whereby a maxi mum of economy 1n inaterial is sfecured. "Attention will now be given to 'the maingarment as illustrated in Fig. 4. The upper portion of this main garment will be shaped either by seaming or knitting ;-but the lower portion is given its shape by =simple'n1ethcd and without waste or seaming. Assume that we have in hand a piece of t'uhtdarwehhing the total-lengthof the garment,='its up perportion having been se ed or'knitto the body shape, its lower ption stiilreseerr shaped piece is then out from the upper ply,

the top line of the'triangle being represented by the line 5, while its side lines will extend,

from the ends of the line 5 down to the vertical out first made. The two side portions of the under ply are then separated, thus forming the opening 6, and the side portions of the upper ply are still further separated, thus forming the wider rear opening 3. In thus accomplishing the formation of the lower portion of the main garment it is to be observed that the triangular piece referred to represents the entire waste material. From this description, which is demonstrative only, the manner of producing the lower portion of the main arment without material waste will be readi y understood. In practical operations precisely the same result ma be advantageously arrived at by flattening the tube in a direction extending fromfront to rear instead of from side to side of the garment, a'single vertical. slit at onefolded edge formin when opened out the front opening 6, w 'le a single vertical slit at the other folded edge of the tube, terminating above in an inward angular cut extended then outwardly, producing when opened out the wider rear opening of the main garment.

I claim as my invention- As a new article of manufacture, a union bifurcated garment com rising a tubular fabric body portion and a eg portion, the leg portion being slitted through both plies of the tube to form ri ht and left leg portions, com bined with rig t and left flap-pieces of abproximately rectan ular shape extending to the bottom of the leg portions and having relatively Wide tops and bases, the flap-pieces having narrow side tongues cut thereon adapted to form the front flaps of the placket.

EDWARD NIEDERAUER. Witnesses:

SAM W. FrrToN, Jr, NORMAN EMRIoH. 

